Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-27
MINERAL WELLS.


MINERAL WELLS.
ANXIOUS FOR AN EXTENSION CT THE
SANTA FE FROM wEATHERFORD TO
GRAHAM.
MINERAL WELLS. Ten, Aug. "a, 1887.
TO the Editor OF the G. azette.
A mass meeting Of citizens and proper
~ owners was held last night and COM
mittee of three appointed to confer with
the officers OF AtchisOn, Topeka and Ssh
IS Fe Railroad looking to the extension
Of the Weatherf0rd branch OF that road
through this place. 1t is runOred that
preliminary lines have recently been run
g few miles north Of town in the direction
of Graham or Crystal Falls. The people
Of this town are exceedingly hopeful CT
inducing the company to build viz this
place. They are prepared to offer extrGor-
binary inducements to road running in
q northwesterly direction, coming IS the
| Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe GOES from
the southeast. The eastern part OF
Pslo Pinto county is very fer
tile and is being thickly settled.
There are possibly $50 sections
of mesquite valley lands lying along 8
route from Millsap on the Texas and
Pacific Railroad to Christian, point near
the north line OF this county. These
lands are peculiarly adapted to growing
cereals. Besides these lands, we have
$50 miles Of the BraZos valley lands in
this county, averaging mile wide, max
ing about go sections of a fine loamy sand
soil, on which grows as fine corn and cot
ton as can be raised anywhere in the
state.
Bordering these valley lands gre
thousands upon thousands of acres of
the finest cedar timber in the northwest,
III apparently ineyhaustible quantities.
We have good quality of coal within
seventy feet Of the surface of the ground,
which in many places is cropping out.
The quantity and quality of our building
stone needs no mention. There ere
thousands OF feet of it stacked up in
the city of Fort Worth already. Pale
Pinto county is perhaps the best watered
county in North or Western Texas. Good
we'll water can be had anywhere at from
twenty TO eighty feet deep and last, but
not least comes our mineral water, the
abundance and quality of which is not
Tivaled in this country. Every well that
has been sunk to a depth of $50 feet il
this county has tapped natural gas II i'm
|
before me1 tioned in THE GAZETTE, il
about ten miles northwest Of Shis place
not fer Of direct line to Graham.
line CT railroad coming from the direc-
tion Of Weatherford or Mills9p via this
place, thence toward Graham or Crysta
Falls, running along the border of thf
Brszos valley, would control the entire
5 traffic Of the country above mentioned
s In, 9TH or
2 over any other route cannot claim NOR
l than a fractional part of it. Mineral
Wells is Just four miles from
| the river and situated on higi
+ level known as Millssp valley
} called such because of high chsin O
mountains that lie north and east Of Us
1t is only question of time when thes,
famous mineral waters must be mad,
: more accessible to the outside world b,
railway connections. Our people ar
thoroughly aroused to the necessity 0
building this valley road TO a proper anC
I thorough development of our many sn'
2 varied resources. Liberal subsidies O
q money and real estate are already in tn
5 hands of board OF trustees. There i
D road already graded to Mlllsap
: distance of eight miles, five miles O
which lies along the proposed route t
q Weatherford. The right Of way border
g ing the valley from here to Young o
e Stephens county can be obtained as fas
+ as deer in walk.
g There is also scheme on foot to pun
j chase and donate TO the Atchison, Topek
e and Santa Fee Railroad Company bloc
$ oflald lying in the city for hospital pun
d poses, on which is one of the finest min
!. eral wells in the world. There is an in
exhaustible quarry of fine building ston
within 500 yards of the lot. c. a. B.
= Mexican National Railway.
CRY OF MEXICO, Aug 26.-The cor
e troll of the National Railway acquired b
C English capitalists is now beginning t